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Today’s CIOs no longer just oversee technology. They are now
key strategists who guide their organizations and give them
the tools they need to stay competitive. A study by Forbes
Research stated that five years ago, a CIO’s most critical
skill was deploying technology. Now, the #1 way that CIOs
provide value is by contributing to the corporate strategy, so
they can advance business objectives and drive revenue.1
In particular, CEOs rely on the CIO for guidance around
digital transformation. Organizations must transform how
they operate and take advantage of new technologies to
better engage customers and employees.
Digital transformation falls squarely on the shoulders of IT
leaders. CIOs are under pressure to drive transformation –
overcoming barriers such as cultures that are resistant to
change, employees who want to upload files anywhere,
and increased concerns about data security.
CEOs also expect CIOs to achieve results now. The
longer you wait, the more likely you will fall beh

NICE has made a significant investment into AI and ML techniques that are embedded into its core workforce management solution, NICE WFM. Recent advancements include learning models that find hidden patterns in the historical data used to generate forecasts for volume and work time. NICE WFM also has an AI tool that determines, from a series of more than 40 models, which single model will produce the best results for each work type being forecasted. NICE has also included machine learning in its scheduling processes which are discussed at length in the white paper.

IBM PowerAI Enterprise helps to make deep learning easier and faster for organizations by bringing together some of the most popular open source frameworks for deep learning, with development and management tools in a single installable package. Designed to simplify end-toend deep learning, PowerAI Enterprise allows enterprises to spend less time on data preparation, implementation and integration, and more time training neural networks for results. IBM PowerAI Enterprise version 1.1.2 includes the most popular deep learning frameworks in one installation:
- BVLC Caffe
- IBMCaffe
- TensorFlow
- PyTorch
- Keras (tensorflow-keras)

Machine Learning For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition, gives you insights into what machine learning is all about and how it can impact the way you can weaponize data to gain unimaginable insights. Your data is only as good as what you do with it and how you manage it. In this book, you discover types of machine learning techniques, models, and algorithms that can help achieve results for your company. This information helps both business and technical leaders learn how to apply machine learning to anticipate and predict the future.
You will find topics like:
- What is machine learning?
- Explaining the business imperative
- The key machine learning algorithms
- Skills for your data science team
- How businesses are using machine learning
- The future of machine learning

As new code deployments accelerate through wider adoption
of DevOps methodology, maintaining software security is
crucial to you and your customers. Is your software security
program up to the challenge? If you’re not getting the most out
of your software security program, our security experts may be
able to diagnose your difficulties. We’ve created a list of specific
recommendations on how to improve your program for better,
faster results. We present to you “How to make your software
security program successful: 10 Essential Best Practices.”

This report describes the results from a groundbreaking
global study by Thycotic that reveals major risk and
compliance gaps in how organizations manage and secure
their privileged accounts and access to sensitive systems,
infrastructure and data. The 2018 Global State of Privileged
Access Management (PAM) Risk & Compliance report
highlights where many organizations are failing to fully
put security controls in place to protect their most critical
information assets.

To remain competitive in an increasingly customer-centric world, mid-sized organizations are undergoing digital transformations of their contact centres. IDC surveyed companies in 27 countries globally, including companies from Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), to examine the current market dynamics of cloud-enabled customer service environments. Eighty-five percent of the respondents fell within the small to mid-sized category with contact centres with 300 seats or fewer.
Get this paper to access complete survey results for EMEA and to gain key insights including:
Nearly 65% of respondents in EMEA already use or are in the process of implementing cloud-based contact centre solutions
Only 13% of respondents in EMEA indicated that they currently are using a public cloud environment, the lowest among all geographies worldwide
Drivers, benefits and challenges for adopting cloud contact centre technology

Forrester Research has found that companies that prioritise their customer experience transformation perform better. Companies included in their report, “Drive Marketing and CX Convergence with Modern Technology,” experienced:
68% increase in revenue
67% improvement in market differentiation
72% acceleration of digital business
Delivering customer experiences that produce results like this requires a strategic approach across your company and the ability to turn disparate interactions into a consistent, personalised customer journey. Read this ebook for three strategies that get you started.

Blue Prism, the inventor of the term Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and
the market leader in enterprise RPA, recently engaged Knowledge Capital
Partners (KCP) to survey their client deployments. We used proprietary
KCP research tools, and this report summarizes our findings. Based on
finalized quantitative survey results as well as our ever-growing library
of qualitative case investigations, the report analyzes the management
practices and behaviors that underpin the exceptional value achieved by
Blue Prism customers as outlined in our January 2018 report “Robotic
Process Automation: Benchmarking the Client Experience.”

Companies across the world are innovating with artificial intelligence (AI) to improve customer experience and forge deeper relationships with customers. Through surveys and interviews with 599 executives, from large and mid-sized companies across the globe, this MIT report reveals that most customer-centric firms have already deployed AI extensively in their customer-facing operations and customer experience management processes.
Get the global report and regional spotlights on North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia to access complete results. Key insights include:
• Nearly 90% of respondents report measurable improvements in the speed of complaint resolution; 80% note enhanced call volume processing using AI
• 80% of respondents report measurable improvements in customer satisfaction, service delivery and contact center performance
• In North America, 60% of the respondents believe they will deliver a 10% or more increase in customer lifetime value in the next year
• Europe

Because business success is tightly fused with technology, IT costs are rising, and this trend is expected to continue. As a result, businesses are demanding that IT be more than a static resource. IT is expected to deliver business results with a measurable contribution to the organization's bottom line.

There are success stories of businesses that have implemented Business Service Management (BSM) with well-documented, bottom-line results. What do these organizations know that their discouraged counterparts don't?

If you're a brand marketer or digital agency looking to amplify your social marketing initiatives this year, this document will guide you through the growing world of Facebook apps. Today, there are more than 500,000 active applications on Facebook, but of these only 250 applications have more than one million monthly active users. You've downloaded this guide because you recognize that marketing today means creating a two-way dialogue with your customers.

As direct marketers, you know "the devil is in the details." Being able to drill-down on results is important to determine future strategies. It takes discipline and the application of direct marketing tenets. But you can fine-tune your results, target better and reap the rewards.

It always surprises me that as eCommerce marketers we give lip service to the importance of testing, buy many of us don't take the time to fine-tune our email programs. If you are able to identify a few elements through testing that resonate with your customers and then employ those insights in your ongoing program, the improvements may be sustainable over time.

The hype about video search has just begun which means lots of questions, lots of new experts, and not enough time to sort through it all.
This new whitepaper "An Effective Video SEO Strategy in Three Phases" will give you the blueprint for getting started and beyond.
Learn all about: the 2 things you should be doing right now to improve your video search engine optimization; widespread myths about what works and what doesn't; Advanced tips for even greater results and more!

In this report, results from well over 650 real-life cross-media marketing campaigns across 27 vertical markets are analyzed and compared to industry benchmarks for response rates of static direct mail campaigns, to provide a solid base of actual performance data and information.

Why read another little book about a BIG subject?
Because a visitor on your website is your opportunity to engage, persuade, influence, and educate. The opportunity is fleeting as their mouse hovers over the back button to return to the thousands of search results for websites just like yours.

Service virtualization tools simulate software components so end-to-end testing can proceed even when dependent components are not available. That means teams can perform integration tests sooner and more often, accelerating the delivery of high-quality, thoroughly tested applications.

The Cisco SD-WAN solution is a cloud-delivered overlay WAN architecture that enables digital and cloud transformation at enterprises. It significantly reduces WAN costs and time to deploy new services, and, builds a robust security architecture crucial for hybrid networks. Enterprises today face major user experience problems for SaaS applications on account of networking problems. The centralized Internet exit architecture is inefficient and results in poor SaaS performance. And branch sites are running out of capacity to handle Internet traffic which is a concern because more than 50% of branch traffic is destined to the cloud. More importantly there are many dynamic changes in Internet gateways and the SaaS hosting servers that lead to unpredictability in performance. The Cisco SD-WAN solution solves these problems by creating multiple Internet exit points, adding high bandwidth at branch locations, and dynamically steering around problems in real-time, resulting is an optimal SaaS

The gaming industry continues to grow rapidly, and it is projected to grow another 30%
in the next three years1
. Online gaming is driving this growth as the industry is making a
seismic shift from disk to digital. This shift comes with an abundance of opportunities and
challenges, as digital gaming makes it easier than ever to get games into the hands of more
players, in more places, in less time.
TechValidate Research surveyed 131 Akamai Technologies, Inc. customer accounts to find out more about how gaming
companies are innovating the marketplace and the challenges they need to overcome in order to do so. The results show
the importance of web security, that acquiring and retaining new users is the biggest business challenge companies are
facing, and that mobile is taking over as the most popular gaming platform.